In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Reality is only for people with no imagination.

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.